TOP 25 –Developer’s Description: NQ Mobile Security is the fastest growing and most advanced mobile security application in the world. Today, more than 240 million users around the globe trust this award-winning application to protect them from malware, spyware, phishing, viruses, hacking, eavesdropping, and other threats. NQ Mobile Security’s cloud-based database is the world’s largest catalog of mobile threat intelligence in existence, containing well over one billion risk assessed and rated URLs and 1,400,000 mobile applications. Today, this database is responsible for first detecting and resolving over 75% of all new mobile threats.

NQ Mobile security also helps users protect their personal and financial data, keeps their devices running at optimum speed, backs up and restores contacts, and even alarms/locates, locks and deletes information from lost or stolen phones using another mobile device or NQ Mobile web dashboard. Basic features are available at no charge. Premium subscriptions are $7.99/3 mos, $12.99/6 mos, or $19.99/yr.

NQ Mobile Security offers users security checks for antivirus, real-time protection, system performance, contact backup and antitheft. Similar to security scanning software on laptop hardware, the service is perfect for those commuters who use their mobile devices for work-related tasks and are at-risk of encountering malware. While the service is certainly a valid one, it crashed on two older Android mobile phones with best performance on newer devices.

He writes, he acts, he speaks science, he sings, plays piano and yes, he knows a good gadget when he sees one! David Pogue, founder of Yahoo! Tech hosted the 2016 Mobile Apps Showdown event.

Important Dates

August 15:

Open for Applications

October 10

Viewing and Online Voting Begins

December 12

Deadline for Applications

December 15 – 24

Judging

December 26

Finalists announced

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